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The Daily Record recently announced its list of Leading Women in Baltimore, and it includes two Open Society Institute Community Fellows, Lanaea Featherstone (2013) and Shantell Roberts (2017).  Featherstone developed her fellowship, “Empowering Latinos One ‘Click’ at a Time,” to teach Latino immigrants basic computer skills and is now president and CEO of the Featherstone […]

Morgan State University Professor Dr. Lawrence Brown, a 2012 OSI Community Fellow and recent honoree, was included in the “Root 100,” The Root’s annual list of the 100 most influential African-Americans aged 25 to 45, at number 61. Among other locals on the list are artist Amy Sherald (number 35) and gubernatorial candidate Ben Jealous […]

Last week, Maryland’s Court of Appeals ruled that two defendants were wrongfully assessed bail in amounts that exceeded their ability to pay, the Daily Record reports. This bail rule which went into effect July 1, 2017, requires judges to consider non-financial pretrial conditions before setting bail. In 2016, Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh sent a […]

The Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs (MIMA) will host a forum about the OSI-supported Safe City Baltimore initiative at the Southeast Anchor Library on October 11th, giving Baltimore resident a chance “to learn how Safe City works, what it’s accomplished, and how you or your immigrant neighbors can access critical legal services in Baltimore City.” […]

On Sunday at the Baltimore Book Festival, OSI-Baltimore hosted a session called “Literature for Social Justice,” which focused largely on ways Black girls are criminalized in schools. OSI Advisory Board member Alicia Wilson welcomed the audience to the Literary Salon stage and introduced poet, educator, and 2015 OSI Community Fellow Brion Gill, author of a […]

On Sunday, the Baltimore Ravens presented OSI Advisory Board member Veronica Cool, CEO of Cool and Associates and past chair of the Maryland Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, with this year’s Hispanic Heritage Leadership Award. The awards recognize the contributions of Hispanic leaders in each NFL market. Cool donated her $2,000 prize for the award to OSI-Baltimore. […]

Yesterday, Open Society Foundations President Patrick Gaspard participated in the Powerhouse Roundtable on ABC’s This Week with George Stephanopoulos to discuss allegations against President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. After other panelists compared the current allegations to Anita Hill’s testimony about Clarence Thomas, Gaspard said, “We are now at a point where the pendulum is […]

Next Saturday, September 29, Johns Hopkins University’s Social Innovation Lab, in partnership with Open Society Institute and Baltimore Corps, will host an “Impact Bootcamp” for “for people who want to gain or enhance the skills essential for launching and leading a community project, nonprofit, or mission-driven business.” The Bootcamp is a condensed version of the […]

In a Baltimore Sun op-ed, Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh cited a New American Economy report that ranked Baltimore number two in the nation in immigrant integration and suggested that the city is stronger because of its support for immigrant communities, through the Safe City Baltimore initiative and other means: Our high score on legal support […]